Legal built a status page for internal systems

“Git is basically a backup.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because Daniel from Legal is on holiday until January. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, a key account manager

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a NAS called test-final purchased from Amazon

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 5 months

Deployment:

restarted manually every Wednesday

Responsible:

Kevin, according to Jira

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Marco"

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2030.

Age: 23 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 23 days ago · original builder left 50 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, the builder has left, 18% chance of becoming business critical.